Ospreys at the End of March
Text: Urmas Sellis
Images: Google Earth
Of our ospreys we’re able to follow only Erika’s spring migration, because Maria, wearing a backpack and wintering for the third year in the African Congo, hasn’t sent us any information since December. We don’t know why.
Osprey Erika began her spring migration on March 4th from the same wintering location in the eastern part of the Sudan where she was last year. On March 12th she made it to the mouth of the Nile. How she exactly flew over the Mediterranean Sea we don’t know, because the signals didn’t make it from there to the satellite. Perhaps radar or radio jammers were the cause, which is usual in the eastern part of the Mediterranean. But we located Erika again in the western part of Turkey near the Demirkopru Reservoir. She also stopped there last year. The photos below show the peninsula in the reservoir where Erika spent last night. Erika was in the exact same place on March 18, 2008.
The larger peninsula in the reservoir was last night’s stopping point
The same location from a satellite photo
Erika’s journey can be seen on the map below:
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